First released in 1934, this bookcovers a large array of historic Greek literature, making an allowance for the main said of the Greek authors in addition to these much less renowned. H. J. Rose offers the newest findings of the time by way of study into Greek literature and covers matters from Homer, Comedy and Poetry, to Philosophy, technology, and the Empire.

This e-book contributes to the background of classical rhetoric by way of concentrating on how key words helped to conceptualize and manage the examine and educating of oratory. David Timmerman and Edward Schiappa reveal that the highbrow and political historical past of Greek rhetorical conception will be greater by means of a greater figuring out of the emergence of 'terms of paintings' in texts approximately persuasive conversing and argumentation.

Xenophon's many and sundry works characterize a huge resource of knowledge concerning the historic Greek global: for instance, approximately tradition, politics, social existence and background within the fourth century BC, Socrates, horses and searching with canine, the Athenian economic system, and Sparta. notwithstanding, there was controversy approximately how his works can be learn.